Christmas Eve with Mrs. Claus

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Santa Claus has his helpers, and Mrs. Claus is making a fire with sticks. They are polar bears. Mrs. Claus is making cookies and treats, and she needs honey. Where is it? It isn’t in with the pots, but I found it up in the cupboard! Then she is making cookies, but a mouse took a cookie. He took it; he was a little thief. He was hiding. I found the gumdrops! Now Mrs. Claus is making popcorn. I need to find the popcorn for her. It is behind the yarn! The girl mouse took it. Mrs. Claus makes a snack for Santa, and I found the chocolate chips! Then she was tired and took a nap. But her helpers made her a pie. She woke up, and where are her helpers now? They are sleeping. Merry Christmas. This book has opening sticker things. I love it. Now can you read it again?

In Kenya, how you would talk to your dad would be, ‘Baba’; like ‘Papa’, very like Papa. When you bought milk, you would pay with a shilling. When friends came over you would go to a wildlife preserve to see animals like giraffes, lions, elephants, and all of those animals. Your favorite food would be beef roasted over a fire with fruit and vegetables and milk and even some pastries that are filled with meat and vegetables. Kenya is in Africa, and your favorite game might be Cricket. You would like to build toys, and most of them would be handmade. You would look forward to the celebration of Carnival. The last page shows all the different types of children all over the world, even American people. It is interesting to know what life would be like in Kenya. I think the part of living in Kenya that I would like best would be the Festival, because it is the funnest thing in Kenya. I would like the food, too.

This book is about a girl and she went to her pets’ cages to feed them. Then she saw they weren’t there, so she looked all around the house, but couldn’t find them. Then she looked outside and she saw them all floating away on balloons! Then she climbed up the tree and tried to catch her pets, but couldn’t. She said, “Mother, my pets are floating away on balloons!” and her mother said, “You have to remember that when things float away, they will always be there in the sky.” She tried to throw a rock at them to pop the balloons, and she also tried floating up to them with her own balloons, but those things didn’t work. Finally she went outside and she saw her dog’s face in the tree, and the sun was her cat’s face, and the bird was in the cloud. And some stars made her fish’s shape. Then she was able to remember her pets and be happy, even though she was still a little bit sad.

I thought this book was a little sad, but I like it that the pets were in the sky so she could always remember them. I liked the pictures in this book too.

This is Jesus baby, Jesus brother, and all the the animals are around him. There is the cat, and a dog, a sheep, a camel. They gave things to the baby Jesus. The donkey brought the mother before she had the baby. The cow gave some hay; he didn’t eat the hay he was sleeping in it. The sheep gave him his blanket. The camel brought the wise men who brought presents for the baby Jesus. The cat was there, and the dog wagged his tail, like my dog Portia would wag her tail too. The birds sang him to sleep. They were nice animals. I like the dog and cat the best. I like to be there with the baby Jesus. The pictures look soft and I would like to snuggle with them, with the animals. There are six little kittens that like to play there, too. This is my book.

Axel doesn’t like school because he doesn’t like sitting still. He likes to play with his dominoes at home. His teacher tells him to make a sculpture, so Axel makes tons of chain reactions, but two of them don’t work. So he makes another one, but he uses leftovers from the his ruined projects. But when he takes it to school, he causes a big disaster. Then he uses leftovers from all the ruined projects of all the students to make the classroom even better.

I think it is a fun book. I like that it is on the iPad; it is actually just a game and there are tons of things to do, like build your own creature, and watch videos, and you can touch stars that do more things. You can read the book by yourself or it will read to you. I don’t really like the pictures or the voices. The kids are mean to Axel, but he works things out in the end.

Pete is in a play about the first Thanksgiving. He’s a pilgrim. (His hat is wrong. Pilgrims didn’t really wear buckle hats.) Not much happens behind the flaps. The pictures don’t change much. One flap just puts the sails down on the Mayflower. The Pilgrims are going to the New World from England. My favorite part is “Land ho!” Pete sees land. They build houses. Native Americans help the Pilgrims grow corn and squash. The Pilgrims and Native Americans have a meal together. This is the First Thanksgiving. My favorite is the cat with one feather. Read the book to see how Pete acts in the play. This book is not as good as Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses. The corn Pete is holding on the cover looks like a snake’s rattle. Pete only has one hand at a time. I didn’t like the flaps. One flap came off the first time I read the book. The book says “Ages 4-8.” I didn’t really like it, and I’m five, so I don’t think eight-year-olds will like it. Maybe three to four will. I am thankful the book is over.